The lack of commonly held rules or standards for system dynamics, the eclecticism of its application, and the wide variety of modeling and non-modeling methodologies developed over the past thirty years present formidable challenges for establishing an effectively functioning system dynamics community. It is reasonable to suggest that the current structure of the community may hold back the growth of the field more than obvious obstacles such as the inherent difficulty of developing insightful moods or the counterintuitive nature of nonlinear feedback lessons. In this light, the structure of the community deserves closer scrutiny. Benchmarking the System Dynamics Community, a survey sent by the author to System Dynamics Society members in February of 1993, is the first survey of the system dynamics community and a first step towards developing a more comprehensive understanding of the structure of the field. The survey instrument consisted of five sections: background, Practice, Software, and Hardware, Model Building, and History Development, and Community. The survey was designed to isolate where system dynamics is practiced, by whom and for what; understand how the methodology is applied and identify lines of communication across the field. This paper presents the results of survey response, structured parallel to the five sections of the survey instrument. It concludes with a series of questions for further investigations.

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